Bicycle Lab Part one

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Bicycle Lab Part one

State Standards:

GSE PS3 (7-8)-8 - Motion

Students demonstrate an understanding of motion by…
  • 8a measuring distance and time for a moving object and using those values as well as the relationship s=d/t to calculate speed and graphically represent the data.
  • 8c differentiating among speed, velocity and acceleration.

National Standards:

Context of Lesson:

This lesson builds upon the previous lesson in this unit. It ties in all of the concepts thus far in the unit. In the previous lesson, students learned the differences among speed and velocity. In this lesson, students will measure velocity and learn how to visually represent velocity in a graph. This is the first lesson in a three day series called "The Bicycle Lab". First students will gather data in the bicycle lab. Each students will be given a role in this activity, as it will be done as a whole class group. Students will then put their data together and analyze the results. This lesson will be a foundation for the following two lesson that build upon the data gathered in this lesson.

Opportunities to Learn:

Depth of Knowledge

Webb level one:
  • Use a well known formula
  • Perform a routine procedure
  • Perform a clearly defined set of steps
Webb level two:
  • Organize, represent and compare data
  • Make observations
  • Collect and display data

Prerequisite Knowledge

  • Measuring distance
  • Calculating speed
  • Motion
  • Speed vs velocity
  • Displacement

Plans for Differentiating Instruction

  • Students will contribute to the activity in different ways, based on their interests.

Accommodations and modifications

  • There are no modifications needed, this lesson is simply collecting and looking at data.
  • Students that need assistance, will be paired with an assistant or another student.

Environmental factors

  • Opening, engagement, closing are whole class instruction
  • Activity will be done outside *weather permitting*
  • Every student will participate in a different way
  • Chart will be on the board to record data.

Materials

  • White board
  • Bicycle
  • Meter stick
  • stop watches
  • Data Sheet

Objectives:

  • Students will make observations based on data that they collect in class

Instruction:

Opening:

  • Review of speed and velocity
  • Teacher introduces Bicycle Lab

Engagement:


  • Teacher explains the procedure of the Bicycle lab
  • Teacher assigns students their rolls
  • Class goes outside and performs lab.
  • Teacher measures out distance
  • Teacher reminds students that they must pay attention because their data is crucial to the entire results.

Closure:

  • Teacher wraps up class with fifteen minutes left.
  • Data is written on the board.
  • Students copy data.
  • As a class, we calculate the overall speeds of each trial.
  • "Why was it important that each time keeper start and stop their watches as accurately as possible?"
  • "Why did we measure the time at various positions along the path?"

Assessment:

  • Formative assessment of students' participates.
  • Formative assessment of students' responses to questions.

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